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Freight · Inventory · Process Audit — Houston, Texas
Find the internal process errors creating avoidable freight and inventory cost.
Enterprise audit logic. Small-business access.
The first step is a $250 flat-fee Quick-Scan of one scan-ready month of your carrier invoice and shipment history exports. You get your top 3 highest-value evidence-backed findings — including data-driven indicators of your own process variance, not just invoice issues. No IT integration.
15 minutes. No files required for the first call. All figures in the sample readout are synthetic.
- Fixed fee
- No IT project
- No EDI / API integration
- No enterprise onboarding
- No gain-share
- No long-term contract
Where operational leakage happens
Shipping cost is often the visible symptom. The root cause usually sits upstream in your own operation — wherever work changes hands between people, systems, or departments.
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Receiving
Check-in delays and errors that ripple downstream.
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Binning
Putaway errors that make stock hard to find or trust.
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Inventory signal
Counts and replenishment signals that don’t match reality.
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Order need
Order and inventory triggers that create unnecessary freight.
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Shipment decision
Freight split or upgraded because an upstream step failed.
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Invoice outcome
What finance paid versus what operations actually did.
The audit turns what it finds into:
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Findings
Evidence-backed, tied to your own rows.
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Fix sequence
What to correct first, and why.
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Continuous improvement
Fixed-scope support when a breakdown repeats.
What Leak Audit finds
Leak Audit finds where freight, inventory, and internal movement processes are leaking money — then turns the highest-value breakdowns into evidence-backed findings and fix sequences.
Split shipments
Orders that could have moved together, split by timing or handoffs.
Order & inventory triggers
Replenishment and stocking signals that create unnecessary freight.
Receiving & binning breakdowns
Check-in delays and putaway errors that feed bad decisions downstream.
Invoice review items
Invoice lines requiring review against shipment detail and rate-card terms.
Ops-vs-finance mismatches
Mismatches between what operations did and what finance paid.
The Quick-Scan starts from a minimum: carrier invoice and shipment history exports, surfacing review opportunities and estimated operational cost-avoidance. WMS, receiving, binning, and inventory logs are not required to start — but when available, they help move the scan from freight symptoms to process root cause. When the logs show recurring breakdowns, the deeper process diagnostic takes over. Rate-card checks require your carrier rate card or contract.
How the Quick-Scan works
Three steps. No payment until your data is confirmed usable.
Free fit check
A free 15-minute call confirms your exports can support a scan and whether the Quick-Scan is the right step. No files required for the first call.
Validation pass
Send one month of carrier invoice and shipment history exports through a secure share link or encrypted ZIP with password sent separately. Leak Audit confirms the tracking / PRO fields are usable before you pay.
Readout
A 48-hour readout after validation pass: your top 3 findings, each backed by evidence rows, walked through with you in 20–30 minutes.
Start with the scan
Leak Audit runs on a simple ladder: the $250 Quick-Scan proves value first, and the deeper steps exist only when the evidence earns them. No long-term contract, no gain-share, no open-ended engagement.
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Start here
Quick-Scan
$250 flat fee
Fast proof — top 3 data-driven findings from one scan-ready month.
- Top 3 highest-value defensible findings with evidence rows
- Starts from carrier invoice and shipment history exports — WMS, order, and inventory logs strengthen the scan when available
- 20–30 minute readout — no IT integration
If Leak Audit does not identify at least $750 in defensible leakage or recovery opportunity, the Quick-Scan is free.
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If the scan earns it
Full Freight & Inventory Audit
$1,500 flat
Deeper diagnostic across multiple months of data.
- Multi-month review with ranked findings
- Recurring leakage patterns and root causes across receiving, binning, inventory, and shipping
- Fix sequence: what to correct first, and why
Your Quick-Scan fee is credited toward the full audit. Offered only when the scan findings justify going deeper.
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If a breakdown repeats
Process Leak Diagnostic
Continuous improvement support
Fixed scope quoted after the audit
For breakdowns that repeat across receiving, binning, inventory, shipping, handoffs, or invoice review.
- Process map with breakdown points and an ownership map
- 30–60 day improvement plan tied to evidence from the audit
- Practical implementation support, with optional follow-up
Not open-ended consulting. Fixed scope and fixed quote, agreed before any work starts. No long-term contract required.
Is your data a fit?
The scan starts with the exports your system already produces — minimum data to start, stronger data when available.
Quick-Scan ready
- Carrier invoice export
- Shipment history export
- Tracking / PRO numbers on both sides
- Rate card or carrier contract, for rate checks
- WMS, receiving, binning, order, and inventory logs — not required to start, stronger scan when available
Not Quick-Scan ready yet
- Exports without tracking / PRO numbers to join on
- Records that exist only on paper or as scanned PDFs — see the note below
PDF or paper records may still be reviewable, but they require a separate conversion or prep step before the $250 Quick-Scan can run. Conversion and prep are scoped separately — manual cleanup is not included in the $250 scan.
Messy operational data is normal here. WMS exports, inventory logs, receiving records, put-away and binning records, adjustment history, and allocation or backorder flags all strengthen a scan. Not sure? Describe what your system can export on the free fit check — that’s exactly what it’s for.
Secure file handling
Your invoice, shipment, and inventory data is treated as confidential from the first file to the last.
Confidentiality first
File review starts only after a signed confidentiality agreement is in place.
Controlled transfer
Files move through your secure share link or encrypted ZIP with password sent separately, then are reviewed on a controlled local audit workstation. Please do not send raw invoice files by plain email.
Deleted after the engagement
Your files and working copies are deleted after the engagement unless you approve continued audit work.
The guarantee
If Leak Audit does not identify at least $750 in defensible leakage or recovery opportunity, the Quick-Scan is free.
Every finding in the readout shows the invoice and shipment rows that support it, so you can verify the numbers yourself.
About Leak Audit
Leak Audit is run by Drew Lopez in Spring / Houston, Texas. Leak Audit is built from hands-on experience analyzing and rebuilding freight, receiving, binning, shipping, and inventory processes in high-control aviation parts environments.
No employer names, screenshots, internal systems, or client data are used in any Leak Audit materials. The sample readout is built entirely from synthetic data.
Start with a free fit check
A 15-minute call for the owner, controller, or ops manager who wants audit-level answers without an enterprise project. Describe what your system can export — you’ll get a straight answer on whether the $250 Quick-Scan makes sense.
15 minutes. No files required for the first call.
Prefer to talk? Call (832) 823-1311.